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Fixed Issues

Fixed issues represents selected issues that were previously logged via Hortonworks Support, but are now addressed in the current release. These issues may have been reported in previous versions within the Known Issues section; meaning they were reported by customers or identified by Hortonworks Quality Engineering team.

Incorrect Results

Hortonworks Bug IDApache JIRASummary
BUG-72574 HIVE-15231 query on view with CTE and alias fails with table not found error
BUG-81310 ATLAS-1760 Rendering property tab use type definition of the entity
BUG-82540 FLUME-3027 Kafka offset seems to jump back and forth to earlier number

Performance

Hortonworks Bug IDApache JIRASummary
BUG-79003 HIVE-15774 Patch request for BUG-73788 - Ensure DbLockManager backward compatibility for non-ACID resources
BUG-79095 ZOOKEEPER-2141 ACL cache in DataTree never removes entries (ZooKeeper-2141)
BUG-79708 HIVE-10319 Hive CLI startup takes a long time with a large number of databases
BUG-80062 YARN-5368 Memory leak in timeline server
BUG-80752 HBASE-18036 HBase 1.x : Data locality is not maintained after cluster restart or SSH
BUG-81308 YARN-5342 Improve non-exclusive node partition resource allocation in Capacity Scheduler
BUG-81314 HBASE-17017, HBASE-17072 Complimentary fixes for HBase
BUG-81581 PHOENIX-2377, PHOENIX-2412 Improving performance of merge sort by multi-threaded and minheap implementation

Potential Data Loss

Hortonworks Bug IDApache JIRASummary
BUG-79756 HDFS-11056 Concurrent append and read operations lead to checksum error
BUG-81298 HADOOP-14195 CredentialProviderFactory$getProviders is not thread-safe
BUG-81301 HDFS-11292, HDFS-7964 log lastWrittenTxId etc info in logSyncAll

Query Failure

Hortonworks Bug IDApache JIRASummary
BUG-81305 HIVE-16567 Unable to read Parquet file based tables in Hive that has Struct types.

Security

Hortonworks Bug IDApache JIRASummary
BUG-80076 ATLAS-1752 Atlas Group mapping for ranger doesn't work if using kerberos authentication
BUG-80177N/AParent process's env vars should not be inherited to child process during container launch
BUG-80227 N/A Invalidate Previous JSESSIONID after Authentication in Zeppelin
BUG-80810 OOZIE-1814, OOZIE-2803 Mask passwords when printing out configs/args in MapReduceMain and SparkMain
BUG-80980 YARN-4749, YARN-5704 LCE YARN Fixes
BUG-81283 PHOENIX-3891 Incorrect impersonation using phoenix Query Server
BUG-81306 ZEPPELIN-1472 Create new LdapRealm based on Apache Knox LdapRealm Class
BUG-81355 YARN-6694 Add default envs to yarn.nodemanager.env-whitelist
BUG-81498 STORM-2528 Bump log4j version to 2.8.2
BUG-81583 HIVE-16413, HIVE-16673 Create table as select does not check ownership of the location
BUG-81748 RANGER-1603 Wildcard policy authorization incorrectly performs prefix match
BUG-81764 RANGER-1619 HS2 doesn't evaluate WASB ranger policies on the location given in Create & Load commands if the location doesn't exist
BUG-82716 KNOX-890 Make IdleTimeout Configurable in Knox Gateway Server

Stability

Hortonworks Bug IDApache JIRASummary
BUG-66120 HIVE-14743 query failure with HBase+view+join
BUG-72574 HIVE-15231 query on view with CTE and alias fails with table not found error
BUG-76886 HIVE-16060 GenericUDTFJSONTuple's json cache could overgrow beyond its limit
BUG-77955 HIVE-11976 Extend CBO rules to being able to apply rules only once on a given operator
BUG-78789 HIVE-16372 Enable DDL statement for non-native tables (add/remove table properties) to hive1 and hive2
BUG-79305 HIVE-16119, HIVE-16299, HIVE-16347 MSCK REPAIR TABLE should enforce partition key order when adding unknown partitions
BUG-79308 HIVE-16290 Stats: StatsRulesProcFactory::evaluateComparator estimates are wrong when minValue == filterValue
BUG-79317 HIVE-16291 Hive fails when unions a parquet table with itself
BUG-79756 HDFS-11056 Concurrent append and read operations lead to checksum error
BUG-80062 YARN-5368 Memory leak in timeline server
BUG-80066 YARN-4624 NPE in PartitionQueueCapacitiesInfo while accessing Scheduler UI
BUG-80123 HIVE-16427 Fix multi-insert query and write qtests
BUG-80307 HIVE-16567 Unable to read Parquet file based tables in Hive that has Struct types.
BUG-81298 HADOOP-14195 CredentialProviderFactory$getProviders is not thread-safe
BUG-81301 HDFS-11292, HDFS-7964 log lastWrittenTxId etc info in logSyncAll
BUG-81303 HIVE-16321 Possible deadlock in metastore with Acid enabled
BUG-81304 STORM-1114 Racing condition in trident zookeeper zk-node create/delete
BUG-81316 HIVE-16703 Hive may add the same file to the session and vertex in Tez

Upgrade

Hortonworks Bug IDApache JIRASummary
BUG-80066 YARN-4624 NPE in PartitionQueueCapacitiesInfo while accessing Scheduler UI

Usability

Hortonworks Bug IDApache JIRASummary
BUG-70680 ZEPPELIN-1472 Support Knox Shiro plugin for Zeppelin
BUG-79708 HIVE-10319 Hive CLI startup takes a long time with a large number of databases
BUG-81226 HIVE-16710 Increase MAX_MS_TYPENAME_LENGTH for Hive Metastore
BUG-81296 PHOENIX-3710 Cannot use lowername data table name with indextool
BUG-81300 ZEPPELIN-1657 Provide a way for user to create/import notes in private mode
BUG-81305 HIVE-16567 Unable to read Parquet file based tables in Hive that has Struct types.
BUG-81310 ATLAS-1760 Rendering property tab use type definition of the entity
BUG-81313 PHOENIX-3756, PHOENIX-3833 Users lacking ADMIN on 'SYSTEM' HBase namespace can't connect to Phoenix
BUG-81315 SQOOP-3160 Sqoop Import failing when the table or view name has '$' in it
BUG-81887 HIVE-14389 Beeline should not output query and prompt to stdout
BUG-82370 SPARK-18617 Close "kryo auto pick" feature for Spark Streaming